10

Aug

2011

I just got a pile of the awesome Crafter’s Workshop Templates created by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer and was going to experiment a bit in my studio anyway. And so I thought why not tape it and show you how studio day with just playing around looks like.

I truly believe that you cannot teach a good workshop until you know how your media react to different treatments, surfaces and materials and the only way you can find out how this works is by just experimenting. Just copying one technique that someone else showed you will not make you someone who knows how to work the media. You can still try to embrace your mistakes- but that doesn’t mean that the outcome would make a good workshop. So let me show you how I work with it and how I look at it.

So the next step for me would be to take the good outcomes and experiences from this and tweak it and try something different. And I will do this until I find something that speaks to me and says “that would be a cool workshop” (well at least in my opinion – LOL)

Like this:

Hey Nat! Thanks so much!!! I didn’t know about customer service was so bad there… Germans seem so propper and all… Anyway, here the weather is probably as bad as in Hamburg: very windy and a bit rainy with a drop o chilly ;), luckily it seems that it will be sunny (although not warm) from Saturday on….

Sure Nat, whenever you can ;-)… the gesso… I am in my summer house right now and it’s in a pretty remote village in Brittany, so no art supply stores nearby (went to a craft store the other day and they didn’t know what gesso was – let alone clear gesso – so I ordered some supplies online (canvases, acrylic paint, gesso…) at a pretty big art supply store in Bordeaux… guess what? I received my order today, and both canvases in one of the standard sizes I ordered AND the (regular) gesso didn’t make it because they were out of stock (can you believe it?)! So nothing is too simple here, but it gives me a reason to rant about French businesses instead of the Spanish ones for once! Ha!

Hi Isabel. hehehe- wait till you come to germany – see what you say about bad costumerservice then ;)

finally I was able to watch it again :) so the colors I used were: Mallard Glimmer Mist Cranberry Zing Glimmer Mist and my two favorites Apple and Riptide Glimmer Mist the black was Charcoal Chalkboard Hope that helps a bit :) H0pe you have at least better weather – we have the worst summer ever. huge hugs nat nathaliesstudio.com

When I have time- please do not hold me on that in the short time now ;) I have a lot of stuff on my plate right now- for example I had a meeting for four hours on skype and have not eaten lunch nor dinner yet and it is 10 pm ;) Gesso can be found in a good artsupply store- if they do not cary the clear one- ask for it- oftne they order it for you.

Oh Isabel- to tell oyu the truth- I do not know them out of my head anymore- I used quite a bunch. For sure I used Glimmer MIst Riptide. I have to watch the video again and see if I get the names out of my head again ;)